A Second Glance: Updates on Dunord, Esther, Satini, and Noel

After I ventured to Haiti in 2017, I wrote stories featuring four farmers who lost their homes to a hurricane: Dunord, Esther, Satini, and Noel. When I interviewed them in Paroty, a rural community on the hillside above Jeremie, they were struggling to survive, living in jury-rigged shacks next to the skeletons of their old…

Roughing It

I went back to Haiti. Alone. I touched down in Port-au-Prince little more than a week after rioters choked the streets with burning tires. Eventually, I rode a public bus down a snake-like mountain road to the isolated town of Jeremie—all with a guide who barely spoke English. As a first-world traveler in a third-world…

Noel’s Story

Out of all the farmers I interviewed in Jeremie, Noel seemed the most desperate. And given her story, it makes sense... Noel's Tale Already a widow when Hurricane Matthew slammed Haiti, Noel had been left to provide for a daughter and two sons. She had been able to make a decent living selling fruit from…